The emperor protects?
Long-time readers will know that — due to a brain parasite I contracted from an Eldar Farseer during a lurid college spring break on Craftworld Ulthwé — I am pathologically unable to stop myself from posting about Warhammer 40K games, no matter how far outside this blog’s editorial sweet spot.
Horus Heresy: Drop Assault sports a moniker that will quicken the pulse of any 40K nerd, but let me just break your heart right now and get it over with. The game is free-to-play and to my eye, appears to be a Space Marine’d-up Clash of Clans, that most odious F2P skinner box. I could be (and very occasionally am) wrong. Somebody explain to me how I’m wrong and I’ll be much obliged to you.
Canadian devs Complex Games have a resume that includes such titles as TMNT Rooftop Run and Ducktales: Scrooge’s Loot, so big licenses appear to be something of a specialty for them. This is first game set in 40K’s Horus Heresy epoch.
For those readers who have spent their precious time on this mortal coil more wisely than I have, the Horus Heresy is a landmark event in Warhammer 40K fluff: it’s the civil war within the Imperium of Man that led to the status quo in the game’s universe where the diminished Imperium (fascist neo-Roman theocrats) stands off against the corrupt forces of Chaos (punk rock Frankensteins). There’s currently a series of tie-in novels (of wildly varying quality) that digs deeper into the lore.
Horus Heresy: Drop Assault will come to iOS & Android this fall. Watch the trailer after the jump and see if you concur with my diagnosis.
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